Is there a text in this cave? : : studies in the textuality of the Dead Sea scrolls in honour of George J. Brooke / / edited by Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioata, Charlotte Hempel.

This volume is offered as a tribute to George Brooke to mark his sixty-fifth birthday. It has been conceived as a coherent contribution to the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls explored from a wide range of perspectives. These include material aspects of the texts, performance, receptio...

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Superior document:Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 119
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 119.
Physical Description:1 online resource (558 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Ariel Feldman , Maria Cioată and Charlotte Hempel
  • Are There Sacred Texts in Qumran? The Concept of Sacred Text in Light of the Qumran Collection / Hanne von Weissenberg and Elisa Uusimäki
  • Textual Authority and the Problem of the Biblical Canon at Qumran / Philip S. Alexander
  • Reflections on Literacy, Textuality, and Community in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls / Charlotte Hempel
  • Scribal Bodies as Liturgical Bodies: The Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism / Judith H. Newman
  • Qumran Cave 4: Its Archaeology and its Manuscript Collection / Sidnie White Crawford
  • Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel : 4QDnf = 4Q116a / Émile Puech
  • 4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered / Joan E. Taylor
  • 4Q47 (4QJosha): An Abbreviated Text? / Ariel Feldman
  • Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1–3): The Imprecatory Function of the Edomite Genealogy in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Kipp Davis
  • Texts within Texts: The Text of Jeremiah in the Exegetical Literature from Qumran / Armin Lange
  • Text, Intertext, and Conceptual Identity: The Case of Ephraim and the Seekers of Smooth Things / Matthew A. Collins
  • Strangers to the “Biblical Scrolls”: Balaam’s Fourth Oracle (Num 24:15–19) and its Links to Other Unique Excerpted Texts / Helen R. Jacobus
  • Deriving Negative Anthropology through Exegetical Activity: The Hodayot as Case Study / Carol A. Newsom
  • The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible / Emanuel Tov
  • Dittography and Copying Lines in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considering George Brooke’s Proposal about 1QpHab 7:1–2 / Eibert Tigchelaar
  • Pseudepigraphy and a Scribal Sense of the Past in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Copy of the Book of the Words of the Vision of Amram / Mladen Popović
  • The Textual Growth of the Damascus Document Revisited / Philip R. Davies
  • Medieval Hebrew Tellings of Tobit: “Versions” of the Book of Tobit or New Texts? / Maria Cioată
  • Some Thoughts on the Relationship between the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon / James C. VanderKam
  • Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic Texts / Devorah Dimant
  • Metaphor and Eschatology: Life beyond Death in the Hodayot / John J. Collins
  • The Book of HGY and Ancient Reading Practices / Jonathan Ben-Dov
  • Ritualization and the Power of Listing in 4QBerakhota (4Q286) / Jutta Jokiranta
  • Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Period: Towards the Study of a Semantic Constellation / Hindy Najman
  • In the Garden of Good and Evil: Reimagining a Tradition (Sir 17:1–14, 4Q303, 4QInstruction, 1QS 4:25–26, and 1QSa 1:10–11) / Jean-Sébastien Rey
  • How Should We Feel about the Teacher of Righteousness? / Angela Kim Harkins
  • The Teacher of Righteousness and His Enemies / Reinhard G. Kratz
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Subjects.